Monday morning, up early, wheeling Mr. Rivero over to breakfast and then to commissary. We got our items and headed back to the unit. I will say that being up early has really had me in an excellent mood today, and feeling great.
I walked over to the chapel for work at the 7:30 work call, and met with the Chaplain to go over our daily activities. Compound sent over a whole unit over to the chapel due to bad weather at “rec” and them not being able to head back to their dorm due to some installations they have going on.
Thankfully this specific unit is a calm group and they were respectful in the Chapel, so we set them up with a movie on the big screen. First we played “Facing the Giants” then played half of “War Room” before they had to return to the recreation yard.
Our Buddhist inmates arrived at 1pm for their service, we provided their items needed and they went on to meditate; I am thinking of joining them one day to see how I would feel afterwards.
After count, Mr. Rivero decided not to go to dinner so I decided to go out to the recreation yard on the first move and play some racquetball. I played for an hour with one other person and was able to put in a good sweat. I won 2 out of 3 games which is a big deal for me being I rarely play compared to him and I still am having difficulty with chest pains and loss of breath after some heavy exercises like this, but I survived and now am glad I played. I stayed at the yard until 8pm because I had a class at 7, by the name of “Inside and Out”, talking about finding ways to better our health and wellness. It is an 8 week course, and today was week 2, which was a make-up day due to class being cancelled on its regular day, Saturday, because of the Trump incident.
I returned to the unit at the 8pm move, called mom, showered and then had a pack of tuna with added seasonings and a salted Matzo cracker. Now time to watch some pre RNC talk on Fox News here in the “Glasshouse” of my unit.
Today completes 34 months that I have been incarcerated. I know I will never again cause myself to return to prison, this is not for me, but I am also happy I have been able to take advantage of several courses that will help me upon my release, and I will continue to involve myself wherever I can to learn all that I am able to, and keep my mind and heart in motion.
Goodnight.
